Best invert for sandbed cleanup

Sea Cucumber. Thats what I used.... And I had it in my 12 gal nano...

 

ok, maybe I'll get one down the road and maybe get a small conch next week, I woke up to my goby being dead, I think he was sick though, didnt see him eating alot in the past couple days, Im gonna take one of the electric blue crabs back as well when I go to the LFS today, I just checked my water last night, 0 amonia, 0 nitrites, nitrates were 20 which they have been declining, so I assume they will keep droping, PH at 8.4, temp at 80(drops to about 78 sometimes) sg was 1.025, so Im geussin the water is not the problem, he did seem like a very finiky fish though after I brought him home, oh well, sucks but there was nothing I could do, kinda hard to try different foods when the fish filters sand to get its meals, I did feed him every couple days with some additional pellet food which always disappeared in a short period of time, and he wasnt really skinny or anything.

 

Get 4 or 5 Nassarius Snails.

 

yeah, i was thinking about that, I believe ill pick some up this coming weekend, I have to drive an hour to get some peppermint shrimp anyway, since the LFS's order didnt show up, said they got 1/4 of what they ordered.

 

cucumbers give off a poison when they die, bad choice
sand sifting stars, bad choice
sand dwelling snails, good choice

 

yeah I thought cucumbers did that, and I dont want starfish of any kinda in my tank, from what I read even the peaceful ones are more trouble then they are worth. so Ill get the snails

 

People blow this so far out of the water it is not funny. The cuke basically expels a portion of its digestive system (guts) onto the substrate as a defensive mode if it feels harmed. Hence why you should only put it in an aquarium that is peaceful.

Aquarium Invertebrates

 

yeah, well I have some stuff that may bother him, the large electric blue hermit, my bicolor pseudochromis seems a bit nippy, chase the clowns every once in a while, i need to get them anemone to host in

 

Was referring more like having a Triger in the tank or something that eats inverts.

 

Is there anything that is good at sifting through a crushed coral bed? The bed fragment are about the size of peas or smaller.

Algae is exploding on my bed due to the new lights.